Announcement,
International Ichnofabric Workshop – 16
Convened
by Andrew K. Rindsberg, Charles E. Savrda, David C. Kopaska-Merkel,
James
P. Lamb
Livingston,
Alabama, USA, May 23-29, 2021
Tentative
field trip dates: May 18-22 and May 30-June 3
Facebook
page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1981431391891255/
Twitter:
@IIW161
Introduction
— The International Ichnofabric Workshop began in 1990 as a
conference devoted to the study of ichnofabric (sedimentary textures
produced by bioturbation), but has since expanded to cover the full
range of ichnologic topics. Research on ancient and modern traces,
traces made by invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants, and traces of
all places are equally welcome here.
This
will be the first time since 2007 that the Workshop has been held in
North America. Alabama is particularly well suited to host the
workshop because of its diversity of trace fossil assemblages, found
in rocks of ages from Cambrian through recent, allowing exciting
field trips before, during, and after the conference. Tentative plans
include seeing, in outcrop or in exhibits,
- Cambrian Conasauga Formation Brooksella (sponge or trace fossil? You decide!)
- Ordovician Chickamauga Limestone shallow-marine trace fossils
- Mississippian Hartselle Sandstone and Parkwood Formation, shallow-marine to estuarine trace fossils including the crustacean resting trace Alph
- Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation estuarine vertebrate and invertebrate trace-fossil lagerstatten including the famous Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site (Union Chapel Mine)
- Cretaceous Selma Group shallow-marine chalks and marls including the famous K-Pg boundary section at Moscow Landing, only a 30-minute drive from Livingston
- Tertiary marine units in south Alabama
Call
for submissions in the subject areas of…
- general ichnology
- modern traces (neoichnology)
- vertebrate traces
- invertebrate traces
- ichnofabric
- evolutionary aspects of ichnology
- ichnostratigraphy
- roots and other plant traces
- ichnotaxonomy
- pseudotraces and dubiotraces
- microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS)
- ichnoentomology
- paleobiogeography of trace fossils
- form and function of trace fossils
- history of ichnology
- other
Venue
and accommodation
The
University of West Alabama
• A
relatively small university (2500 on-campus students) in a small city
(Livingston, 3300 permanent residents)
•
Large, green campus
•
Committed to a
policy of integration (about half African American)
•
UWA conference
venues include auditorium, classrooms, and presentation area for
posters
•
UWA lodging in
student dorms
•
Dining at the UWA
cafeteria, with an excursion to Touch of Home Bakery for lunch
Proposed
field trips
Preconference
field trip This will be charged separately from the conference fee,
and the number of participants will be limited.
Day
1. Coastal Plain outcrops to be arranged
Day
2. Tuscaloosa, including Alabama Museum of Natural History
(Pennsylvanian trace fossils) and Geological Survey of Alabama
(cores, which might include Rodessa oyster biostromes; Smackover
microcoprolites; Cretaceous cycles)
Day
3. Birmingham area, including Red Mountain and Parkwood formations;
Pennsylvanian trackways etc. at McWane Science Center
Day
4. Minkin Site (Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation)
Other
field trips are possible: watch the Facebook page and website!
Mid-meeting
field trip: This will be a one-day trip for all conference
participants; weather and river levels permitting, we will stop at
Moscow Landing and Gaineswood. The Local Committee will handle
arrangements. The charge for this field trip will be included in the
conference fee. We will come up with an alternate stop in case Moscow
Landing is submerged.
Post-conference
field trip: This will be charged separately from the conference
fee, and the number of participants will be limited. Tony Martin and
Sally Walker will take participants to coastal Georgia for a
neoichnological extravaganza.
Meeting
organization
A
5-day conference with 4 days reserved for talks (8 hours per day, 20
minutes per talk for about 100 participants) and one day for a
mid-conference field trip. If we allot a room for poster
presentations, then talks can be longer.
Organizing
committee:
•Andrew
K. Rindsberg, University of West Alabama
•Charles
Savrda, Auburn University
•David
C. Kopaska-Merkel, Geological Survey of Alabama
•Gabriela
Mángano, University of Saskatchewan
•James
P. Lamb, Black Belt Museum
•George
Phillips, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
Contact
and information:
Andrew
K. Rindsberg
Biological
& Environmental Sciences
University
of West Alabama
Livingston,
Alabama 35470, USA
Phone
+1 (205) 652-3416
Email
arindsberg@uwa.edu
or
David
C. Kopaska-Merkel
Geological
Survey of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
AL 35486-6999
Phone
+1 (205) 247-3695
Email
dkm@gsa.state.al.us
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